Lot 2708. A pair of famille-rose 'Bajixiang' bowls, seal marks and period of Jiaqing (1796-1820); 11 cm., 4 1/4 in. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 HKD. Lot sold 500,000 HKD. © Sotheby's 2010

each delicately potted body with deep slightly curved sides rising from a short tapering foot to an everted rim, brightly enamelled around the exterior with four beribonned Buddhist emblems between a keyfret band at the rim and a ruyi head and dotted band at the foot, the base with an underglaze blue six-character seal mark.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th April 1998, lot 838.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 Oct 2010